Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-07-11
LABOR AND lMyJGRATTON.

The protection of American labor, long
8 myth, is about to become s reality.
Enrichng lot of manufacturing princes
and enabling them to dictate terms to
their employees will not long constitute
the chief ornament of the tariff system.
There is q law now upon the statute
books which prevents these monOpolsts
from importing foreign contract or pau
per labor, but this law is being violated
with impunity. In Texas the capitol
contractor has succeeded in eYading the
law and it Is being done elsewhere. In
Pennsylvania there is q system Of evic-
tions in progress, which, for appalling
atTocity, can not be matched
by the most brutal evictions OF
Ireland. This is because the tariff
laws have been operative only so far as
the monopolist was concerned and af-
forded no protection whatever to the Ia
Dorer. Mr.. POwderly, conceded TO be st
the hesd of the labor interests in this
country, has recently given utterance to
statement that the laboring men would
IN the future claim for themselves the
protection enjoyed so long by the money
kings. In a recent interview he is re-
ported as saying: "But there is one
question that the American people must
take up that greatly concerns the work
ingm8n. 1t is or will become g burning
question Of the day-sn issue which will
excel all others in impoTtance-snd that
problem is the great question Of the
great unceasing food Of immigration from
old Europe. I am utterly opposed to all
forms of pauper immigration and to G
great deal Of immigration, pure and sim |
pie. l think a halt should be called on |
immigration until this nation can con-
slider what 1t is doing in allowing these |
nationalities to enter here and become q |
burden on our country and mensCe to |
the American home" Mr.. Powderly is S |
protectionist in the full sense of the term. |
He is opposed to seeing America made q |
dumping ground for the refuse Of the ma
tons of the world and in this he is both &
philosopher and patriot. There was
q time when any kind of man was good
enough to stop en- Indian arrow and,
therefore, good enough to make sn Amer
lean citizen, but that was before our
transatlantic friends made the breeding
of anarchists g specially, We can proba-
bly, absorb and humsni2e what "red rag''
gentlemen we have now among US, but
there should be an end put to the supply.
Injustice and intolerance foster anarchy
in Europe and Europe should be made to
suffer for her own sins. The United
States is not responsible for the eXis-
tence of these social pests, and should
not, in Justice, be made to suffer from
their raYeges. When, by e system Of or
gained robbery, foreign governments
the LIES blood out of their men,
bers, the useless husBs should not be
sent to US. When 8 people become tax
upon a community by the palpable in
Justice OF that community, the burden
should not be shifted upon friendly
country. Uncle Sam has long offered an
asylum for the oppressed ones OF earth,
but when paupers are made, SIS Italisns
make cripples, for the purpose Of excit-
ing pity and extorting dole from the
1t IS only matter Of self de-
tense to order halt. Let the anarchists
and wage slaves remain to vex the
authors OF their misery. We do not need
them.